The racer

Lance Stroll

Bio

Lance started his racing career in karting at the age of ten,
and has been a winner from the word go. In his first year in karting in 2008
he was the Federation de Sport Automobile du Quebec rookie of the year followed
by driver of the year in 2009. Four titles followed in the Florida Winter
Tour before he moved to the CIK-FIA World Championship in 2012. The move
to the Italian Formula 4 Championship in 2014 saw another title added to his cv.
This was followed by the Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand and then the 2016 FIA
European Formula 3 Championship. He joined the Williams Young Driver Development
Programme in 2015 and then a year later was announced as the team’s driver for 2017.

Stats Timeline

We scored no points in Spain but it was a good race. I made a good start again with a lot of positions. Then it was just steady running and I did everything I could, but just missed out on points.

After the safety car period it was tricky, as tyre warm up was hard and I suffered a little bit there, but all in all, it was okay. The medium tyres were pretty easy to manage and I am really happy with the race we had. Eleventh is pretty much everything we could hope for today.

Williams racing

Roll of honour

On the 3rd November 2016 Williams Martini Racing confirmed Lance Stroll was making his Formula One
debut in the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship.

Claire Williams, Deputy Team Principal, said; “Lance joined the Williams Young Driver Programme at the end
of 2015 and has impressed our engineers with his maturity, talent and enthusiasm.
We are pleased to be able to offer him the opportunity to step up and show what he can do in
Formula One, after proving a dominant force in all the categories he has raced in so far.

He is still young, and we looking forward to seeing him develop as a driver.
Williams has a great record of introducing young drivers to Formula One, who
have achieved great results, and we hope this will be the start of a
long successful career for Lance as well.

As a team, we continue to push forward in our goal to win races and championships,
and believe this exciting fresh combination will put us in a strong position to deliver
on our future targets.”